Lucid Dreaming.

[Benguin]

Been trying to do this for over a year now and had my first one earlier this evening! I was watching tv and nodded off and found myself on Portland Bill(use to work as an outdoor pursuits instructor near there) I was stood near the lighthouse and looked at my watch, the dials were spinning really fast and then lucidity hit me! I had been using a technique for about a year to induce it where you check your watch every half an hour during your waking life, the idea is you make it a habit so eventually you do it in your dream. In the dream I knew I was dreaming because of the fast spinning watch dials. Unfortunately I woke instantaneously gonna keep trying, I've read about what is possible with these dreams and sooo hope I learn to do it.

Anyone else know about this or had one?

An article for those unfamiliar:

www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/27/mysteries-lucid-dreaming-brain-consciousness-research

[Mike the Metal Ed]

I did it once accidentally as a kid. I had absolutely no idea I was dreaming and seemed to have completely free will. Never managed it as an adult though.

[Jaspa]

I know when I'm dreaming Ive just never thought of controlling it, just let the madness ensue.

 

Used to have a thing as a kid where as soon as I suspected I was dreaming I'd blink and that would normally snap me out of it instantly. Got some weird occurrences in dreams where I can jump really high Hulk style and just bounce around, you do get some really odd ones but more recently they've been boring.

 

Is the idea to take control of the dream then and just do whatever you can off of your own mind or are you limited?

[Carl the Llama]

I was really into the idea of lucid dreaming as a kid, I printed off instructions and everything, though I never really made any true effort beyond consciously focusing on it while trying to get to sleep each night for a good long time. I frequently have times now where I know I'm dreaming and can slightly manipulate it. ie: Dealing with slowed movement by acknowledging the problem and hopping around like I'm on the moon instead, but I rarely have any say in how the storyline plays out and I've never experienced full lucidity like you hear some people describe it.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Thanks to lucid dreaming I've had sex with Emily Ratjakowski multiple times.

[ozleicester]

Thanks to Lucid dreaming i have become Emily Ratakowski

[Unabomber]

I have done it a few times when I was at high school and had an idea for a film where someone becomes so involved in lucid dreaming that they effectively have 2 lives and lose a grip on reality.

Once you realise you are dreaming and enter a lucid state is one of the most ****ed up feelings ever. It is so hard to describe too, but everything spins the colours become ridiculously vivid and then you are awake within your dream. It is so hard to not wake up though and I always did too quickly.

[Guest Col city fan]

I have done it a few times when I was at high school and had an idea for a film where someone becomes so involved in lucid dreaming that they effectively have 2 lives and lose a grip on reality.

Once you realise you are dreaming and enter a lucid state is one of the most ****ed up feelings ever. It is so hard to describe too, but everything spins the colours become ridiculously vivid and then you are awake within your dream. It is so hard to not wake up though and I always did too quickly.

Watch a film called 'Jacobs ladder'.

If I recollect, it's pretty much what you are on about.

[DB11]

Sounds like Inception film.

[Benguin]

I have done it a few times when I was at high school and had an idea for a film where someone becomes so involved in lucid dreaming that they effectively have 2 lives and lose a grip on reality.

Once you realise you are dreaming and enter a lucid state is one of the most ****ed up feelings ever. It is so hard to describe too, but everything spins the colours become ridiculously vivid and then you are awake within your dream. It is so hard to not wake up though and I always did too quickly.

Yep, the feeling when I realised was on another level, I didn't even think about waking but within seconds I was up.

Need to keep working on this!

I will visit antarctica and play with the Penguins

I will Fvck Hermione granger on a broom stick flying over New York

I will get a 10 letter word on countdown and Rachel becomes so impressed she does all manner of things to me in that studio

[Darkon84]

Haha as nice as all these situations sound, I've found during my experiences that you can't actually pick what you want to do. You don't realise you are lucid dreaming then teleport yourself on to Countdown to bang Ms Riley (though I'd do that if I could). The experiences I've had when it occurs tend to be that I'm already within a dream scenario, then lucidity hits and I am then able to control what happens within that set dream and make choices to alter the outcome, rather than completely changing to something different.

 

How do you know you were actually lucid dreaming, just because of the watch hands turning fast, may I ask? Could that not just be a standard dream caused by your everyday life because you constantly look at your watch?.

[Unabomber]

When I had a lucid dream I triggered it by realising that I couldn't read a menu (it made no sense) and suddenly thought "I must be dreaming" that was when I woke up within the dream.

[somebum]

I do this a lot, must be a hidden talent, i knew i had some kind of talent.

[Grewks]

Astral projection is worth a read upon.

[Voll Blau]

Was able to do it when I got ill in Barbados. Was fvcking brilliant, I could fly. No idea how I did it though, must've been a side-effect of the illness.

[Danno]

Was able to do it when I got ill in Barbados. Was fvcking brilliant, I could fly. No idea how I did it though, must've been a side-effect of the illness.

I had bad flu a few months ago and dreamt that I was trapped inside the coding of a computer game and couldn't get out. Weird as ****.

[lavrentis]

I had bad flu a few months ago and dreamt that I was trapped inside the coding of a computer game and couldn't get out. Weird as ****.

 

break;
// all done

[Alexikokopops]

I had bad flu a few months ago and dreamt that I was trapped inside the coding of a computer game and couldn't get out. Weird as ****.

Was it like Tron?

[The People's Hero]

I have always been able to do this to some extent, but dl often wake up very soon after realising what's going on. I was in a bit of a cocktail of medication for a bit though, some of which had effects not dissimilar to sleeping tablets and at that time I was falling asleep and having very long vivid lucid dreams. In these dreams very often though I was doing things I wouldn't necessarily choose to do with my time, like going to work- which is a actually quite an exhausting cycle when you then have to get up and go to work. I've also found it not to be very pleasant on some occasions, including when I found myself in the situation of flying an aircraft carrying many people and becoming lucid and realising I couldn't actually fly it. Clearly I still landed the thing like a boss, since hey it was my dream and I guess I was then controlling the outcome.

I suppose the point im making is that I don't think you can just choose your scenario- just affect the one you're in. Additionally some scenarios are not pleasant and a bit worrying and those feelings are real.

I'm sure you can prob ably train your mind to have more control over even that though.